> Figure 10.1 shows HPLC chromatograms of hu-man blank plasma and blank plasma spiked with the 4 cephem drugs 20 µg/mL each.. HPLC chromatograms of human blank plasma a and blank plasma
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II.4.10 β-Lactam antibiotics
by Yuko Ito and Hisao Oka
Introduction
β-Lactum antibiotics constitute an important class of antibacterial agents being used extensively for both humans and food-producing animals to treat or prevent infections Th e drugs occasionally cause human deaths due to anaphylactic shock during medical treatments, especially when they are parenterally administered without their prior intracutaneous tests Th ese cases are usually handled
as medical accidents ( malpractice), and subjected to autopsies and analysis of the drugs used
Th ese antibiotics are composed of cephems (> Table 10.1) and penicillins (> Table 10.2),
which are naturally occurring or semi-synthetic Furthermore, two subclasses of cephem
anti-biotics are cephalosporins and cephamycins (> Table 10.1) Th e primary structural diff erence between the cephalosporins and cephamycins is the methoxy group substituted for the α-hy-drogen in the 7-position on the β-lactam ring
In this chapter, methods for simultaneous analysis of 6 kinds of penicillins and of 4 kinds
of cephems by HPLC-UV are described
HPLC-UV analysis of penicillin antibiotics [1]
Reagents and their preparation
• Benzylpenicillin, phenoxymethylpenicillin, ampicillin, cloxacillin, dicloxacillin, nafcillin and β-hydroxyethyltheophylline can be purchased from Sigma (St Louis, MO, USA)
• Acetonitrile is of HPLC grade, and water is purifi ed with a Milli-RO/Q water purifi cation system (Millipore, Bedford, MA, USA)
• A working internal standard (IS) solution is prepared daily with purifi ed water to give a concentration of 20 µg/mL of β-hydroxyethyltheophylline
• Calibration standard are prepared daily with drug-free human serum covering the range of 0.5–50 µg/mL
• 1 mM Ammonium acetate buff er solution (pH 6.4): 77.8 mg of ammonium acetate is dis-solved in purifi ed water to prepare 1 L solution, and adjusted to pH 6.4 with either ammonia water solution or acetic acid solution
• 0.2 M Tetrabutylammonium hydrogen sulfate solution: 67.9 g of tetrabutylammonium hydrogen sulfate is dissolved in purifi ed water to prepare 1 L solution It is adjusted to
pH 7.7 with the below 0.2 M NaOH solution, and then buff ered with 0.2 M borate buff er solution, pH 7.7 (1:1, v/v)
• 0.2 M NaOH solution: 8 g of NaOH is dissolved in purifi ed water to prepare 1 L solution
• 0.2 M Borate buff er solution: 12.4 g of boric acid is dissolved in purifi ed water to prepare
1 L solution and adjusted to pH 7.7 with 1 M NaOH solution
• 1 M NaOH solution: 40 g of NaOH is dissolved in purifi ed water to prepare 1 L solution
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⊡ Table 10.1
Chemical structures of cephem antibiotics
cephalothin
cephazolin
ceftiofur
cephalosporin C
cephalexin
cephapirin
cephaloglycine
cefuroxime
cephaloridine
cefoxitin
cephamycin A
Trang 3HPLC conditions
Instrument: a model 620 solvent delivery system (Kontron AG, Zurich, Switzerland), a Uvikon 720LC UV/VIS variable-wavelength detector (Kontron AG), a model 3390A plotting inte grator (Hewlett-Packard, Avondale, PA, USA) and model 200 programmer (Kontron AG); column: Spherisorb ODS (250 × 4.6 mm i d., particle size 5 µm, Kontron AG); guard column: Pell ODS (50 × 4.6 mm i d., Whatmann, Clift on, NJ, USA); mobile phase: A = 1 mM ammonium acetate buff er solution (pH 6.4), B = acetonitrile with a linear gradient from 90 % A/10 % B to 75 % A/25 % B in 15 min; fl ow rate: 2 mL/min; UV detection: 208 nm
Procedure
i A 50-µL volume of working IS solution and 2.5 mL dichloromethane are added to 200 µL
of a test serum or each calibration standard in a 10 mL screw-top centrifuge tube
ii Th e mixture is vortexed for 30 s, followed by addition of 100 µL of 0.2 M tetrabutylammo-nium hydrogen sulfate solution
iii Aft er vortex-mixing for 1 min and centrifugation at 2,800 g for 5 min, the upper aqueous layer is discarded
iv A 2-mL volume of the organic phase is transferred to a new 10-mL conical test tube and evaporated to dryness at room temperature in a Speed Vac Concentrator (Savant Instru-ments Inc., Farmingdale, NY, USA)
v Th e residue is reconstituted in 50 µL acetonitrile/purifi ed water (10:90, v/v) and a 20-µL aliquot is injected into the chromatograph
⊡ Table 10.2
Diagnostic ions of penicillin antibiotics obtained under ESI LC/MS/MS conditions in the negative mode
benzylpenicillin R=C7H7 phenoxymethylpenicillin R=C10H7O oxacillin R=C10H8ON cloxacillin R=C 10 H 7 ONCI nafcillin R=C13H11O2 dicloxacillin R=C 10 H 6 ONCI 2
benzylpenicillin 333 289 192
phenoxymethylpenicillin 349 305 208
oxacillin 400 356 259
cloxacillin 434 390 293
nafcillin 413 369 272
dicloxacillin 468 424 327
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Assessment and some comments on the method
Th e recoveries of the six penicillins were 79.4 to 95.7 % for serum specimens Th e detection limits were 0.05 µg/mL for benzylpenicillin, 0.10 µg/mL for phenoxymethylpenicillin and cloxacillin, 0.15 µg/mL for ampicillin and dicloxacillin, and 0.20 µg/mL for nafcillin (signal-to-noise ratio = 5) Over the concentration range studied (0.5–50 µg/mL), a good linear response was found for all penicillins assayed (correlation coeffi cients for calibration curves
> 0.996) Th e only penicillin antibiotic, which overlaps benzylpenicillin in the chromatogram,
is amoxicillin; but the latter does not interfere with the assay, because it is not extracted with this procedure Th e separation of the six drugs was relatively good
Penicillins can be separated using acetonitrile/water alone as a mobile phase However, when biological samples spiked with penicillins are analyzed, there is a considerable shift in retention times between biological samples and the standards due to matrix eff ects To avoid such a phenomenon, in many HPLC methods, various buff ers (pH around 7), such as phos-phate and acetate solutions, are used as mobile phases
Because many penicillins do not show specifi c strong ultraviolet absorption, several HPLC methods utilized pre-column [2–5] and post-column [6–11] derivatization techniques for de-tection with enhanced selectivity and sensitivity In addition, some of these methods require the use of mercury (II) chloride, a toxic environmental pollutant For highly sensitive determi-nations, LC/MS with ESI can be recommended; but these methods were developed for the analysis of residual penicillins in foods [12–19] Benzylpenicillin, phenoxymethylpenicillin, oxacillin, cloxacillin, nafcillin and dicloxacillin give three kinds of product ions by ESI LC/MS/
MS, which is useful for both identifi cation and quantitation as shown in > Table 10.2 [12, 15]
Because this technique is highly selective, it seems useful for the determination of penicillins
in both pharmaceutical and biomedical specimens
HPLC-UV analysis of cephem antibiotics in plasma
with a column-switching system [20]
Reagent and their preparation
• Cephalexin, cefoxitin, cefuroxime and cefotaxime sodium (IS) can be purchased from Sigma Cephaloridine can be obtained with request from Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA
• Standard solutions of the 4 cephem drugs are prepared by dissolving each compound in purifi ed water and diluted to appropriate concentrations with 0.01 M acetate buff er solu-tion (pH 3.5)
• IS solution is prepared by dissolving 5 mg cefotaxime in 10 mL of purifi ed water and by diluting 100 times with 0.01 M acetate buff er solution (pH 3.5)
• 0.01 M Acetate buff er solution (pH 3.5): 778 mg of ammonium acetate is dissolved in
puri-fi ed water to prepare 1 L solution, and it is adjusted to pH 3.5 with 1 M acetic acid solu-tion
• 0.02 M Acetate buff er solution (pH 4.3): 1.6 g of ammonium acetate is dissolved in purifi ed water to prepare 1 L solution, which is adjusted to pH 4.3 with acetic acid
Trang 5HPLC conditions
Instrument: a model M 501 pump (for washing solvent, Waters, Milford, MA, USA), a 10-port multifunction valve (Valco, Houston, TX, USA), a model SP 8800 pump (for mobile phase, Spectra Physics, Santa Clara, CA, USA) a Reodyne 7125 injector with a 10 mL loop (Cotati,
CA, USA), a model SP 8450 UV/VIS detector (Spectra Physics) and a model SP 4270 comput-ing integrator (Spectra Physics); precolumn: Corasil RP C18 (40 × 2.0 mm i.d., particle size 37–50 µm, Waters); guard column: Lichrosorb RP-8 (20 × 4.0 mm i.d., particle size 25–40 µm, Merk, Darmstadt, Germany); analytical column: Partisil ODS-3 (250 × 4 mm i.d., Whatman, Clift on, NJ, USA); mobile phase: acetonitrile/0.02 M acetate buff er solution (pH 4.3) (15:85, v/v); washing solvent: 0.01 M acetate buff er (pH 3.5): fl ow rate: 1 mL/min each; UV detection:
254 nm
Column switching system; step I (0–4 min): the sample solution is injected onto the pre-column a, step II (5–8 min): the retained compounds are eluted from the pre-column b to the guard column/analytical column with the mobile phase, step III (9–25 min): the eluted drugs are separated with the analytical column
Procedure
A 100-µL volume of the spiked plasma and 300 µL of IS in 0.01 M acetate buff er solution (pH 3.5) (5.0 µg/mL cefotaxime) are mixed, and 100 µL of the mixture is injected c into the HPLC system
Assessment of the method
Th e recoveries of the fi ve cephem drugs ranged from 72.3 to 85.6 % for plasma specimens Th e probable reason for their relatively low recoveries is interaction between drug molecules and proteins; minor parts of the drug molecules might have been lost during the pre-column wash-ing However, the use of cefotaxime as IS can compensate such losses upon calculation Th e precision and the accuracy for the assays of cephalexin, cefuroxime, cefoxitin and cephalori-dine using the IS were evaluated over the concentration range of 1–100 µg/mL in plasma Th e mean coeffi cients of variation for intra- and inter-assay were both less than 4.9 %, and the rela-tive recoveries ranged from 96 to 105 % > Figure 10.1 shows HPLC chromatograms of
hu-man blank plasma and blank plasma spiked with the 4 cephem drugs (20 µg/mL each) Th e detection limit was equally about 0.5 µg/mL (signal-to-noise ratio = 3) Th e calibration curves with peak-area ratios were linear in the range of 1–100 µg/mL, respectively Th e correlation coeffi cients were better than 0.999 Th e following drugs did not interfered with the assays of the above 5 cephem drugs: cefotiam, cefadroxil, cefazolin, cefoperazone, cephalothin, cefaman-dole, aspirin, diclofenac, alcofenac, lonazolac, piroxicam, ibuprofen, indomethacin, ketopro-fen, naproxen, phenylbutazone, mefenamic acid and caff eine Th e total analysis time per sample was less than 25 min
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Poisoning symptoms, and toxic and fatal concentrations
Since β-lactam antibiotics are considered least toxic among all antibacterial agents, their fatal doses are not clear However, the presence of high blood levels of these antibiotics can cause seizures, nephritis, leukopenia and bleeding disorders [21] It is well-known that β-lactam antibiotics occasionally cause allergy reactions Th e anaphylactic shock caused by parenteral administration is not so rare Th e sensitivity test is, therefore, essential before parenteral administration of β-lactam antibiotics When such a test is neglected or overlooked, resulting fatality due to anaphylactic shock, such a case is regarded as malpractice
HPLC chromatograms of human blank plasma (a) and blank plasma spiked with cefoxitin, cefuroxime, cephalexin and cephaloridine (each 20 µg/mL) (b) Peaks: 1 = cephalexin;
2 = cefotaxime (IS); 3 = cefuroxime; 4 = cefoxitin; 5 = cephaloridine Reproduced from reference [21] with permission of Friedr Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellshaft mbH.
⊡ Figure 10.1
Trang 7a) Polar interfering plasma components are passed through the pre-column Th en, the wash-ing solvent is passed through the pre-column to remove interferwash-ing impurities Th e guard column and the analytical column should be equilibrated with the mobile phase before analysis
b) Th e pre-column is re-equilibrated with the washing solvent for the next injection
c) Th e prepared samples should be kept at 4 °C before injection
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